Definitions for jota

jota jo·ta

Spelling: [hoh-tuh; Spanish haw-tah]
IPA: /ˈhoʊ tə; Spanish ˈhɔ tɑ/

Jota is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in jota (ajot).

Definitions for jota

noun

  1. a Spanish dance in triple meter, performed by a couple and marked by complex rhythms executed with the heels and castanets.
  2. the music for this dance.

Origin of jota

1840-50; Spanish, probably Old Spanish sota dance, derivative of sotar to dance Latin saltāre

Examples for jota

Outside of Andalusia, the most famous dance is the Aragonese jota.

She is to wear it to-morrow, and she is teaching me the jota.

The jota that evening appeared to be a very sedate kind of dance.

Presently he was playing a jota and demanded that somebody should dance.

She turned from the window to greet Mercedes who came in to bid them come down to the patio to practice the jota.

It was energetic exercise and they were rather tired when the last notes of the jota ended.

Who can dance with him the jota, touch with him the gay guitar.

The jota is the most common of Spanish dances, as the waltz used to be with us.

The jota has a beat which is partly the beat of the bar, partly that of the phrase.

The dance of the peasant in Castile is always the jota Aragonesa.

Word Value for jota
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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